Prof. Dr. Heike Grimm

Aletta Haniel Professor for Public Policy and Entrepreneurship

If you want to make an appointment with Professor Grimm during the Semester, pleasedo so through Ms.Zimmermann

Heike M. Grimm is Aletta Haniel Professor for Public Policy and Entrepreneurship at the University of Erfurt and since the winter semester 2015/16 Director of the Brandt School. Before she was Professor in Policy Analysis and Public Management with the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy of the University of Malta.

She served as the Director of the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy from 2006 until 2008, and as Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena, from 2004 until 2008. She was senior researcher at the Johns Hopkins University and the German American Centre for Visiting Scholars in Washington, D.C.; visiting lecturerat the Higher School of Economics of the State University in Moscow and visiting professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs of Indiana University in Bloomington.

She accomplished diverse research projects focusing on entrepreneurship, small business promotion and economic development at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, and at Munich University. Her research has been funded by the European Science Foundation, the European Commission, the German Federal Ministry of Economics, the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education and the Haniel Foundation, among others. Further, she has worked as consultant for public, non-profit and private organizations, among them, the Ministry of Economics of Kazakhstan and Belgium, and the OECD. She studied politics, economics, economic history and Arabic in Munich and at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, holds a Doctorate from the University of Munich and a Habilitation from the University of Erfurt.